“but the company, which is a stock racket that happens to sell cars, has operated at a level beyond rational analysis for years.” Actual laugh out loud at this statement!!
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I don't think that the author knows what securities law is.
Looking like a big piece of shit would be a hint to most people
The ghost of John Deloreon is laughing.
Why would you pay that much money just to be made fun of. Owning a Tesla is bad enough, but a cybertruck is just begging for ridicule.
You don't own a Tesla , you lease the software to keep it running.
I saw one in person in Akron. The kids made fun of it.
I saw two of them this weekend. One of them was painted a bright, bright green, which managed to make it even uglier. When we were driving on the freeway next to the first one, my first thought was it looked like a vehicle from one of those cheap 70s or 80s sci-fi movies where they make some "futuristic" car by putting a shell on a regular car and you can tell that the suspension wasn't modified to handle it, so it drives like shit and looks stupid.
I feel like the mohawked futurists of Mad Max would take a look at one and just shit themselve laughing before crushing one like an aluminium can
Dire straits money for nothing lookin ass car. Fuck that thing.
How does one get this far in the manufacturing process without realising they've...
Like, I know the answer. I just hate it
I just really hope the 7,000lb steel truck doesn't crush someone to death. What a fucking awful design.
Unless it's their owner and then no one of value would be lost
Well, that's the other thing. The Cybertruck has NO crumple zones, meaning in the event of a crash all of that energy is going into the passengers. I feel like at best you'd be lucky to get out with severe whiplash.
Still, I'm more concerned about someone being flattened or worse, used for nefarious purposes. If anyone regrettably remembers when some peaceful protestors disrupting freeway traffic had a giant truck driving through them (not the Semi in Minneapolis but the regular Large Truck owner driving through an abortion rally protest, hitting 2 people).
I love unbiased journalism! Lmao, I know it's a blog / opinion piece but still, at least consider why people buy them. This just reads like a boo Elon circle jerk.
Back in the day people just called that "making fun of" or "ridicule". It's not trying to be journalism, it's trying to be flippant and chaudenfreudic.
It is an opinion piece and I'm not gonna pretend it's not heavily biased, but why shouldn't it be? What are the reasons to own a Cybertruck when the whole intent of the product feels like a pro-Elon circlejerk?
I'm an average consumer and shall we say, an Elon-disdainer. I don't like the man, though I have better things to do with my time than actively hate him. At first glance, it does not appear to even be a truck. It's wild and awful looking, it doesn't sell itself at all on the visuals alone so it had better have killer features. Which are ........ ?
Look, when you show up to my potluck with a literal crockpot full of shit, I don't feel the need to entertain you. "Is that literal shit?" I ask. "It's my grandmother's recipe!" you reply. "Well that may be, but is it literal shit? In a crockpot? Cooking all day?" "You haven't even tried it!"
I don't know why I have to justify not eating shit. Coming up with reasons not to blindly consume transparently bad products was not a position I felt I'd ever need to reason myself out of.
EDIT: sorry if that came off sounding too critical of you, I don't mean to attack you personally. But the shape of this discussion is a thorn in my side that sits at a particular junction between how we choose to see biases in media and modern consumerism and I think it warrants further investigation.
At first glance, it does not appear to even be a truck.
I think this is actually it's biggest selling point. Over the last couple of decades, trucks have really all converged on the same styling. They all look tall, brawny, hyper-masculine. The cyber truck isn't going to appeal to someone that wants an F150, but it will appeal to someone that wants some F150 functionality without all the truck bro image. I wouldn't ever want one, but I get it.
Elon seems like a douche. So I think we're on the same page there. But if we're calling the Cybertruck literal shit, then we've lost the meaning of the word. The product seems to have some crappy flaws. But it is a first gen of a radical new idea. I personally really like finally seeing some innovation when it comes to automotives. It feels like no one's really tried to make a big change up in decades. Everything on the street is the same concept in 4 different shapes. Every now and then they add a no-brainer feature like Bluetooth and that's it. The Cybertruck looks like a totally unique new electric pickup built with stainless steel, a 4-wheel steering system, and steel rolling bed cover. I don't see a reason to buy it myself, but I get why someone would. And I'm really happy that someone is trying something new in a stagnant market.
If the product is shitty, then by all means call it out. But I think understanding why some people are excited for it is worthwhile. No one is asking you to eat this particular "shit soup."
Radical new ideas like a pedal you push with your foot to accelerate it?
Geo cube, pt cruiser, smart car... All of these had radical shapes without forgetting how to make a gas pedal. There have been several vehicles which have used novel composite body materials. There certainly have been other vehicles, even trucks with 4 wheel steering. While these might be new FOR TESLA, they aren't new. Tesla already makes other electric vehicles, that's not only not new, it isn't new FOR THEM.
I like how two of your examples were cube like cars which themselves have been around forever 
The PT Cruiser is literally a retro design 
I'm all for criticizing Cybertruck. People need to know the shortcomings. Especially if there's dangerous issues. But like, I appreciate one of these wacky concept cars actually being released.
Geo cube, pt cruiser, smart car... All of these had radical shape
DeLorean (minus the cocaine... Maybe?) for the stainless steel...
It goes fast when you hit the faulty accelerator and the battery is full. And... Yea that's about it.
As the Bay Area is both a nexus for world-class goobers and the region where Tesla used to be and kinda-sorta still is headquartered, I have seen a lot of Cybertrucks out in the wild over the past few months. They are remarkably fake- and shitty-looking in any context (Is that a big toaster with wi-fi next to me at the exit? Who's driving the scrap metal assemblage with Bryan Colangelo-esque proportions? Why does every Cybertruck driver I glance at appear to be simultaneously peacocking for attention but also totally embarrassed, haunted by the unexamined knowledge that as a maneuver in a culture war they paid $100,000 for a car that doesn't work?)
The company was sued in 2017 by drivers whose cars drove themselves unexpectedly through garages and into walls; a German paper reported last year on over 2,400 complaints about sudden braking problems; and a safety researcher published a white paper showing how voltage spikes could lead Teslas to speed up without warning.
Remember the relative of some US senator who drove herself into a pond and drowned? Was she driving a Tesla?
whose idea was it to make the brakes not connected to the actual brakes anyway
im not a car engineer and just the tought of it feels unsafe as fuck
there was a case in i think japan where the car simply accelerated like a rocket out of nowhere and the brakes simply refused to work
Especially hilarious because it was the relative of former Transportation Secretary.
I know that's not really her job but it sure as fuck sounds funny.
It was
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